Eurasia Bridges puts geostrategic initiatives and foreign policy ambitions of the People’s Republic of China into perspective and provides tailor-made responses and solutions for decision-makers.

Eurasia Bridges acts as a neutral, efficient and flexible entity.

In addition, Eurasia Bridges supports companies and decision-makers to better understand and benefit from the Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) in Europe and Asia.

Eurasia Bridges provides the following:

Consulting services
Written analyses
Lectures

and relies on, and activates a widespread, multi-layered, and discrete international network of experts, to attend to your specific needs.

Eurasia Bridges connects you in Europe, Asia and beyond.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Photo by Claudia Leisinger

The Founder of Eurasia Bridges

In 2016, Moritz Rudolf founded Eurasia Bridges. He has been studying Mandarin and the Chinese culture since 2002 and has lived and worked in Beijing for several years.

Parallel to his studies in economics and law at the Heidelberg University and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Moritz Rudolf started analyzing China from a security perspective in 2010, as Head of the Working Group "Conflicts in Asia and Oceania" at the “Heidelberg Institute of international Conflict Research” and as Board Member of the Heidelberg “Forum of International Security”. In addition, he spent two years at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

Between 2014-2016 Moritz Rudolf worked at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), with a specific focus on China’s legal policy, geopolitical initiatives, and foreign relations. He has been a frontrunner to systematically track and analyze the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) in Europe.

In addition, in 2017 he was a fellow within the Berlin-based Research Group “The international rule of law – Rise or Decline?“, where he focused on the international law dimension of the BRI.

Since 2020, Moritz Rudolf is a fully qualified lawyer. He is a keen observer of the re-emergence of the People’s Republic of China and the on-going global power shifts. He has recently submitted his PhD in international law titled: “China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) - Historical, Political, and International Legal Aspects”.

Key areas of expertise & special skills

In-depth knowledge of Chinese language and culture
China’s foreign & security policy as well as geostrategic initiatives including:
- The Belt and Road Initiative
- China’s Middle East and Central Asian Strategy
Comprehensive insight in China’s approaches to international law
Detailed knowledge of the Chinese legal system and domestic policy

Membership

United Nations International Law Seminar Alumni Network (Vice President)
BMW Responsible Leaders Network
Zukunftsbrücke – Chinese-German Young Professional Campus of the Stiftung Mercator
Fellow and member of the Stiftung Mercator Alumni Network
Tönissteiner Kreis e.V.
Asia-Pacific Research and Advice Network (APRAN)
Bratislava GlobSec Young Leaders Forum
Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Studies (HIIK)
Forum for International Security (FiS)

Contact Moritz Rudolf

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Previous Engagements (excerpt)

Asia-Pacific Research and Advice Network (APRAN)Consulting services on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — **Asia-Pacific Research and Advice Network (APRAN)**
Consulting services on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

German - Chinese Seminar on International Law (19 March - 20 March 2018) Workshop on identifying reform areas of the international legal order. — German - Chinese Seminar on International Law
(19 March - 20 March 2018)
Workshop on identifying reform areas of the international legal order.

Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaConsulting services on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — **Kingdom of Saudi Arabia**
Consulting services on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Lectures and inputs (excerpt)

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, “Zwischen Geopolitik, Staatskapitalismus und Autoritarismus: China als strategische Herausforderung für Deutschland und die EU”, Berlin, “Die Auswirkungen der BRI auf die Völkerrechtsordnung”, 25 October 2019

German Agribusiness Alliance, “„Kooperationen Chinas, Zentralasiens/Osteuropas und Afrikas miteinander: Chancen für den Agrarsektor und das deutsche Agribusiness?“, Berlin, “China’s Agriculture Strategy under the BRI”, 23 September 2019

China Law Society, “The BRI – Towards a New Level of International Legal Cooperation? “, Guangzhou, China, “The BRI – Towards a New Level of International Legal Cooperation?”, 9 November 2019

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China & China Law Society, Forum on the Belt and Road Legal Cooperation, Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for the International Legal Order, Beijing, July 2018

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Globalisierung in den Weltregionen. Wirtschaftszentren, Zukunftsszenarien, Herausforderungen, Jena, "Die Seidenstraßeninitiative - Chinas Globalisierungsvision", April 2018

34. Logistik Dialog 2018, Bundesvereinigung Logistik Österreich, Wien, "Inwieweit die Seidenstraßeninitiative Neu auch Global Strategies ermöglich", April 2018

Außen- und Sicherheitspolitische Vereinigung der Parlamentsmitarbeiter/innen (ASVP), Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Hintergrundgespräch: "Prozess, Struktur & Standards: Die Auswirkungen der Seidenstraßeninitiative auf die internationale Ordnung", February 2018

Wirtschaftskammer Wien, Außenwirtschaft Forum China - Wie kann Österreichs Wirtschaft profitieren?, Vienna, Keynote: "Dimensionen der Seidenstraßeninitiative", November 2017

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung & Chinese Academy for Social Sciences (CASS), Chinas Seidenstraßeninitiative und die deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Herausforderungen der Globalisierung, Beijing, "Structure and Process: The Belt and Road Initiative from an international law perspective", October 2017

Zukunftsbrücke der Stiftung Mercator / Chinese-German Young Professional Campus 2017, Hamburg, "The Belt & Road Initiative", October 2017

Future Energy Forum, World Expo 2017, Astana, “How can local Kazakh Entrepreneurs benefit from the Belt and Road Initiative?" August 2017

FH Wien, “Neue Seidenstraße – Quo Vadis?”, Vienna: „Xi Jinping’s geopolitical prestige project. “, May 2017

KFG “The International Rule of Law – Rise of Decline”, Berlin: “The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from an international law perspective", May 2017

Clingendael Institute – “The Middle-East and China-Europe relations”, Leiden Asia Center: “The Belt and Road Initiative and Sino-European interests in the Middle East”, May 2016

BMW Foundation, 5th World Responsible Leaders Forum, Munich: “China's Silk Road Initiative – Xi Jinping's Prestige Project and the West”, May 2016

China Zentrum, Jahresakademie 2016, Sankt Augustin: „Xi Jinpings geostrategisches Prestigeprojekt: Chancen und Risiken der Seidenstraßeninitiative“, April 2016

The National Academy for Security Policy (Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, (BAKS), “Trierer China Gespräche”, Berlin: “One Belt One Road“, December 2015

BRICS Economic Think Tank & Belt and Road International Financial Forum, Beijing: “Risks and Opportunities of the Silk Road Initiative”, December 2015

Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration, Jahreskolloquium 2015 "Die Beziehungen zwischen der Europäischen Union und China", Essen: „Chinas neue Seidenstraße nach Europa“, December 2015

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Government of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, "China Xinjiang Development Forum”, Urumqi & Beijing: “Opportunities and challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative from a German perspective”, August 2015

BMW Foundation, 4th Global Table, Lusławice, (Poland): “China’s New Silk Road”, June 2015

Lanzhou University, "One Belt, One Road" cultural roundtable conference, Lanzhou, “One, Belt, One Road from a German perspective”, August 2014

Publications (excerpt)

China’s Security Strategy towards the Middle East The United Nations of China: A vision of the world order - Chinese scholars' increasing outspokenness on UN reform, April 2018

China’s Security Strategy towards the Middle East, June 2017

China's Global Law Enforcement Drive - The need for a European response (with Thomas Eder & Bertram Land), January 2017

Chancen und Risiken der Seidenstraßeninitiative, in: Die Beziehungen zwischen der Europäischen Union und China (Schriftenreihe des Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration e.V.), Hrsg. Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, January 2017

China's Political System, (Co-Author), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Editor: Sebastian Heilmann); December 2016

Silk Road: A Bumpy Road Ahead, May 2016

Chancen und Risiken der Seidenstraßeninitiative - Xi Jinpings geostrategisches Prestigeprojekt, Reader Sicherheitspolitik, April 2016

China Should Do More to Solve the Syrian Refugee Crisis (with Angela Stanzel), February 2016

China’s New Era of Diplomacy: Engaging in Syria, January 2016

China’s Shadow World Order, in: Connectivity Wars (Edited by Mark Leonard), January 2016

China's 'Silk Road' Initiative is at Risk of Failure, September 2015

New Threats, New Responses: How China Fights Terrorism, Merics Web Special (with Marc Julienne & Johannes Buckow); July 2015

Häfen, Bahnen, Pipelines China baut mit der neuen Seidenstraße auch seine Macht aus, in: Internationale Politik; May 2015

China’s Shadow Foreign Policy: Parallel Structures Challenge the Established International Order (with Sebastian Heilmann, et al.), October 2014

The High-Speed Concentration of Decision-Making Power: The New Leading Group on Reform and the Reorganization of Decision-Making under Xi Jinping (with Lea Shih), August 2014

Russian-Chinese Relations after Putin’s visit to Shanghai, July 2014